Cooking for one

Nelski

Morning everyone....freezer surprise for me for dinner tonight. At the moment I have no clue at all what it is so I will have to wait till its defrosted a little then I can at least see what it is It must be fairly old as I have got good at labelling recently so goodness knows what joys I am in for

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you like grapefruit (I'm not a fan), Lidl's offers that start today for one week, includes single grapefruits for 29p each.

Not a fan either PN reminds me of the 70s when it was very exotic to have half a grapefruit with a cherry in the middle ...in fact my mum obviously was very on trend as she even had a grapefruit knife :rotfl:

karcher

Nelski wrote: »

Not a fan either PN reminds me of the 70s when it was very exotic to have half a grapefruit with a cherry in the middle ...in fact my mum obviously was very on trend as she even had a grapefruit knife :rotfl:

Ditto, except mother didn't put a cherry on the top :rotfl:

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you like grapefruit (I'm not a fan), Lidl's offers that start today for one week, includes single grapefruits for 29p each.

That's a good price - I do like them but can't get to Lidl or I'd be for some

Nelski wrote: »

Morning everyone....freezer surprise for me for dinner tonight. At the moment I have no clue at all what it is so I will have to wait till its defrosted a little then I can at least see what it is It must be fairly old as I have got good at labelling recently so goodness knows what joys I am in for

LOL - at least you don't have the risk I used to have of defrosting bait my son who is a keen angler had frozen -:mad:

Nelski wrote: »

Not a fan either PN reminds me of the 70s when it was very exotic to have half a grapefruit with a cherry in the middle ...in fact my mum obviously was very on trend as she even had a grapefruit knife :rotfl:

Mine did too - think she got it and various other "useful" gadgets from collecting Greenshield stamps I used to love when the catalogue came through as there was some good stuff (well to a young child anyway) as well:o

Still feeling at bit unsteady today so not planning on much by way of cooking. I've taken a bagel and some pastrami out of the freezer for lunch and will probably stick with my planned pork chop for dinner as I've mash and veg in the freezer I can have with it so easy to do. I love a bagel with cream cheese and pastrami so ordered some cream cheese with this week's shop so I could have one - I'm looking forward to it:D I buy the pastrami in big packs from the online butcher's I use, it's the best I've tasted and I freeze it single portions so I don't pig out on it when I get it, I've not had any since Christmas time so a treat well over due:)

caronc

karcher wrote: »

Ditto, except mother didn't put a cherry on the top :rotfl:

So I wonder if having a mother who had a grapefruit knife going to be a common theme like the loo roll hoarding :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (Or actually maybe every household had one in the 1970s....... )

monnagran

Nelski wrote: »

Not a fan either PN reminds me of the 70s when it was very exotic to have half a grapefruit with a cherry in the middle ...in fact my mum obviously was very on trend as she even had a grapefruit knife :rotfl:

Funny story alert.

I had a lovely friend who studied cheffery (posh cookery, don't know the technical term) in France. Eventually she married into the aristocracy. Posh but eccentric.

One day her MIL was giving a dinner party and asked my friend's advice about a starter. Knowing that the lady's cooking skills were sparse, to put it mildly, she suggested grilled grapefruit. MIL asked how you did that. Dear friend explained that you put the grapefruit under a hot grill and then decorated it with a cherry.

Dear friend could hardly believe her eyes when the starter was produced. In the middle of each plate a blackened football rolled around. Some of them still had a cherry perched precariously on the top of it.
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Nelski

caronc wrote: »

LOL - at least you don't have the risk I used to have of defrosting bait my son who is a keen angler had frozen -:mad:

Mine did too - think she got it and various other "useful" gadgets from collecting Greenshield stamps I used to love when the catalogue came through as there was some good stuff (well to a young child anyway) as well:o

Still feeling at bit unsteady today so not planning on much by way of cooking. I've taken a bagel and some pastrami out of the freezer for lunch and will probably stick with my planned pork chop for dinner as I've mash and veg in the freezer I can have with it so easy to do. I love a bagel with cream cheese and pastrami so ordered some cream cheese with this week's shop so I could have one - I'm looking forward to it:D I buy the pastrami in big packs from the online butcher's I use, it's the best I've tasted and I freeze it single portions so I don't pig out on it when I get it, I've not had any since Christmas time so a treat well over due:)

eeewww yeah bait would not be my preferred choice for dinner :rotfl:

I wouldn't be surprised if my mum got them from green shield stamps too we were all obsessed as a family collecting them

Take it easy today caronc sounds like you have some lovely food planned (unlike me at this stage when I really dont know what Im having )

caronc wrote: »

So I wonder if having a mother who had a grapefruit knife going to be a common theme like the loo roll hoarding :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (Or actually maybe every household had one in the 1970s....... )

Yeah a grapefruit knife and a small jar of maraschino cherries ...good old 70s

Nelski

monnagran wrote: »

Funny story alert.

I had a lovely friend who studied cheffery (posh cookery, don't know the technical term) in France. Eventually she married into the aristocracy. Posh but eccentric.

One day her MIL was giving a dinner party and asked my friend's advice about a starter. Knowing that the lady's cooking skills were sparse, to put it mildly, she suggested grilled grapefruit. MIL asked how you did that. Dear friend explained that you put the grapefruit under a hot grill and then decorated it with a cherry.

Dear friend could hardly believe her eyes when the starter was produced. In the middle of each plate a blackened football rolled around. Some of them still had a cherry perched precariously on the top of it.
t

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: my mother wasnt too far away from this ...I had to tolerate some awful attempts at being posh :rotfl:

meg72

Nelski wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: my mother wasnt too far away from this ...I had to tolerate some awful attempts at being posh :rotfl:

Ohhhh yes me too, my dear Mums posh thing was her Sunday tea.
All the "Sunday Best" would come out, the tablecloth, the posh tea set, with side plates, the glass salad bow, trifle bowl, the bread and butter plate, the pickle dishes, one for beetroot, one for onions, one for celery the cheese dish, jam pot, the best cutlery, cut meat platter,little nibble dishes, Great granny's cake stand and silver plated salad servers. She would then faff about cutting the tomatoes into water lillies and the radish`s into roses, forget what the cucumber was supposed to be but it got the treatment . She would make sausage rolls and prawn vol-e-vents and cheese straws, the jelly and blancmange would be set in flower shaped moulds.

Glorious spread but it was my flipping job to lay the table ,clear up and wash up after tea. Took me forever and my dear Brothers would play outside and pull faces at me through the window.

Lol I still have her Pickle Jars, with faces as ornaments in my kitchen.

Nelski

meg72 wrote: »

Ohhhh yes me too, my dear Mums posh thing was her Sunday tea.
All the "Sunday Best" would come out, the tablecloth, the posh tea set, with side plates, the glass salad bow, trifle bowl, the bread and butter plate, the pickle dishes, one for beetroot, one for onions, one for celery the cheese dish, jam pot, the best cutlery, cut meat platter,little nibble dishes, Great granny's cake stand and silver plated salad servers. She would then faff about cutting the tomatoes into water lillies and the radish`s into roses, forget what the cucumber was supposed to be but it got the treatment . She would make sausage rolls and prawn vol-e-vents and cheese straws, the jelly and blancmange would be set in flower shaped moulds.

Glorious spread but it was my flipping job to lay the table ,clear up and wash up after tea. Took me forever and my dear Brothers would play outside and pull faces at me through the window.

Lol I still have her Pickle Jars, with faces as ornaments in my kitchen.

Oh that is so like my life in those days...cucumbers were cut into flower looking things for us and as for the dish

This is similar to mums....she still has it lol